- Wellwood Cemetery
Wellwood Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in
Pinelawn, New York . The cemetery comprises many sections, each under the auspices of a synagogue,landsmanschaft , or group such as the Brooklyn Jewish Postal Workers Union. Each of these is marked, most commonly by a stone arch or a pair of stone columns. Many of the landsmanshaftn have dedicated Holocaust monuments to the victims of the Nazis in their ancestral town. Examples include Baranowiche, White Russia, ( Baranowice, Bielorussia,) [ [http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/hm-baranavichy-ww.htm hm/baranavichy/wellwood ] ] ,Ioannina , Greece, [ [http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/hm-ioannina-ww.htm hm/ioannina/wellwood ] ]Pilica , Poland [ [http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/hm-pilica-ww.htm hm/piltz/wellwood ] ] ,Sokolov , Poland, [ [http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/hm-sokolow-podlaski-ww.htm hm/sokolow-podlaski/wellwood ] ] , andBurshtyn , Ukraine [ [http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/hm-burshtyn-ww.htm hm/burshtyn/wellwood ] ] .Several well-known rabbis are buried here. [ [http://kevarim.wordpress.com/category/wellwood-cemetery/ Wellwood Cemetery « Kevarim of Tzadikim in North America ] ]
Notable Burials
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Leo F. Rayfiel
*Julius and Ethel Rosenberg [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Executed At Sundown, 50 Years Ago. |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E6D81E38F933A15755C0A9659C8B63 |quote= |publisher=New York Times |date=June 20 ,2003 |accessdate=2008-06-23 ]References
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